Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HN4/1/77/13b
  • Title
    Document HN4/1/77/13a is overwritten in pencil with the following, probably used as a draft: Salford Charity Assignment of Indenture of Apprenticeship. Maria Boon apprenticed to Elizabeth Chapman of 25 St John Street, Newport Pagnell in the County of Buckingham, dressmaker. Term of three years.
  • Date free text
    1883 - 1884
  • Production date
    From: 1883 To: 1884
  • Scope and Content
    This Indenture witnesseth that Maria Boon a poor child born in and having a settlement in the Parish of Salford in the County of Bedford by and with consent of her father Eli Boon of Salford aforesaid labourer and by and with the consent of the Reverend Boteler Chernocke Smith vicar of the Parish of Salford aforesaid and of Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the same parish and with the approval of Maria Dale Smith of Salford aforesaid, spinster (testified by their severally executing these presents) doth put herself apprentice to Elizabeth Chapman of 25 St John Street, Newport Pagnell in the County of Buckingham, dressmaker to learn her art or trade and with her after the manner of an Apprentice to serve from the fourteenth day of March 1883 for the term of three years during which term the said Apprentice her said Mistress faithfully and diligently shall serve in the said art of dressmaker and habitmaker and in all lawful concerns according to the best of her power skill and ability and behave herelf towards her said Mistress and all hers honestly orderly and obediently in all things . And the said Elizabeth Chapman in consideration of the sum of Twenty Pounds sterling to be paid to her by the said Vicar Churchwardens and Overseers of the said Parish of Salford in manner following that is to say the sum of Nine Pounds on the execution of these presents and the sum of Eleven Pounds on the fourteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty four. And also in consideration of two pounds paid by the said Maria Dale Smith on the execution of these presents the receipt of which sums of Nine Pounds and Two Pounds by the said Elizabeth Chapmans hereby acknowledged (which said sum of Twenty Pounds is part of certain Charity moneys charged in lands in the parish of Brightwell by the Will of Dr Woodward and payable to the Vicar Churchwarden and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Salford aforesaid for the binding out of Poor Children born in the Parish of Salford Apprentices). Her said Apprentice by the best means that she can shall and will teach and instruct the or cause to be taught or instructed in the art and business of a dressmaker and habitmaker including therein the use of her sewing machine and shall and will find for his said Apprentice good and sufficient meat drink lodging and tools and all other necessaries except clothes and medicine during the said Apprenticeship. And the said Eli Boon hereby covenants with the said Elizabeth Chapman that he will at his own expense find and provide for his said daughter during the said apprenticeship good & sufficient clothes and medicine and surgery in case of sickness or accident. And it is hereby declared and agreed by or between all the said parties of these presents that if the said Apprentice shall not be living or shall not continue in the service of the said Elizabeth Chapman as such apprentice on 14th September 1884 then that such Eleven Pounds shall not be paid and the said Elizabeth Chapman shall not have any claim in respect thereof. And for the true performance of all the Covenants and Agreements aforesaid on the part of the said Elizabeth Chapman she bindeth herself to the to the said Vicar Churchwarden and Overseers and their successors and to Miss M D Smith respectively by these presents.
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